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Ash Cooper, formerly Joshua Cooper, being escorted by authorities (WCAU screenshot)

Ash Cooper, formerly Joshua Cooper, being escorted by authorities (WCAU screenshot)

An 18-year-old transgender woman in Pennsylvania will spend up to four decades behind bars for killing a 12-year-old girl, fatally shooting the child and then bragging about the deed in an Instagram video chat in which she even showed the little girl’s body.

Bucks County Court of Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey L. Finley on Thursday ordered Ash Cooper, formerly Joshua Cooper, to serve a sentence of 15 to 40 years in a state correctional facility for the 2022 slaying of young Morgan Connors, authorities announced.

Finley handed down the sentence after Cooper formally pleaded guilty to one count each of third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

During Cooper’s sentencing hearing, Chief Deputy District Attorney Kristin M. McElroy read a victim impact statement penned by Morgan’s grandfather in which he described the “intense pain and heartbreak” that followed the loss of his granddaughter, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

“The human heart is not built for such heartbreak,” he wrote in the letter.

The investigation into Cooper began at about 4 p.m. on Nov. 25, 2022, when someone called the Bensalem Township Police Department and reported a possible homicide at the Top of the Ridge Trailer Park in the 1400 block of Gibson Road, about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.

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